Humans Quotes · Page 374

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

— Anita Brookner

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

— Gerard K. O'Neill

Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being…

— Suzanne Collins

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

— Pope Francis

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

— Russell Means

The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would…

— Bernie Siegel

Humans simply aren’t moved to action by 'data dumps,' dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion.…

— Jonathan Gottschall

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which…

— Murray Leinster

I just felt like, "Why would you discuss my body as if it's an object?" People will come up and say things…

— Rose McGowan

What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory…

— Richard Preston

I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention…

— Anne Rice

One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed…

— Bertrand Russell

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in…

— Honore de Balzac

I think there is a contempt for the human dignity of people who were enslaved. You couldn't see them as fully human…

— Bryan Stevenson

Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those…

— Charles Kingsley

When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does…

— Leigh Hunt

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child… My hemmings and hawings over…

— Vladimir Nabokov

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous…

— Karl Barth

In reality, there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than…

— Thomas Berry

Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the…

— Rick Yancey

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

— Albert Einstein

It is beyond ridiculous that wolves need to study a human or that they are capable of it.

— L. David Mech

All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

— Deepak Chopra

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

— Henry David Thoreau

There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.

— Edward T. Lowe, Jr

People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.

— Helen Mirren

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

— Kent V. Flannery

As humans, our instinct is to be free. And any sort of restrictions don't help.

— Kirti Kulhari

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

— Gregory of Nazianzus

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

— Errol Morris

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

— Ross Douthat

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.

— Bernie Sanders

Imagine what a focused human being could do in a day to make a difference in this world.

— Caroline Myss

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

— Richard K. Morgan

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

— Marcus Aurelius

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

— Maurice Saatchi